MONITORING ENERGY CONSUMPTION PATTERN IN UNIVERSITY HOSTELS
Advisor:
Dr. Muhammad Asghar Saqib
Abstract:
In University hostels the power consumption is irregular during winter season. Students
use electric heaters, irons, electric kettles which is a burden for generators. This
situation cause overloading of transformers which are designed for particular load and it
does not include these high rated equipments. The main concept behind our project is
the power regulation and continuous monitoring of the energy consumption curve. Our
system is based on high computational power of STM32F429 controller. For the
acquisition of the desired parameters weve got transducers; i.e. CT for current, PT for
voltage. The parameters are kept for processing using a 12-bit inbuilt analog to digital
converter. This data is moreover forward to a central database system on the internet
using WIFI module. Most importantly all this monitoring is completing in a real time. This
composed system will help authorities to make decisions concerning the installation of
new distribution transformers, maintenance or up gradation of the existing ones.
Installing this system aims to figure out these complexities in an economical and
efficient manner.